Eric Kigada

"Never delegate understanding" Charles Eames

"I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: someone has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings 🎨 John Howe

@vonsles @Vladimir_Yakuza @xysist Do something like Real Estate development at master's level after engineering. Unless you want to remain as a hardcore engineer then you can do a course that turns you into a building services engineer. The two courses have a future & are needed today.

@Vladimir_Yakuza ongea na wenyeji hio sector, @xysist uko na maoni?

Is it possible for one to study engineering but after graduation they desire to do architure related course at masters level ..is it possible?

There is a simple fact that many Kenyans have ignored or haven't factored and that is that Uganda will become an oil economy by next year!

No matter what every Kenyan thinks about SGR. As long as it does not connect to Uganda it is not viable. It has been connected to Naivasha for 7 years & no one has used it to export items. How will it be different in other regions?

@ForensicsKuria Whether they are ready or not, one SGR train can replace at least 100 trucks on the Mombasa-Malaba highway, with transit times reduced to hours instead of four days on average using trucks. We dump containers at the border they deal with the traffic & logistics of trucks.

Uganda does not have funding ready for their section. And they are playing us with half-hearted commitments. They have readied funds for bridges. They will use it for roads once they are unable to get funding. EXIM Bank has promised funds for Uganda if Kenya builds its section first but that's just talk. We might be left owning a white elephant. In any case, even if Uganda built its own section, the whole enterprise will not work. It starts the problem from the wrong end.

@ChegeVic_254 They will continue being pricey until the railway reaches Malaba. The more volume they move the cheaper they will be.

@EricKigada KR are trying to woo fruits and flowers exporters to start ferrying produce using reefers as the industry moves to sea transport. They're kinda pricey though.

@NomdeGuerre24 @omuonyotieno The Chinese are interested in getting their money back. As long as the train doesn't get to UG, Kenya will struggle to pay. That is why they gave us the cold shoulder when we went back to continue construction after Uhuru diverted it to Naivasha.

@EricKigada @omuonyotieno Agreed Uganda always wanted the SGR to reach theborder. Not so sure about the Chinese. Thought they were always focused on the Nairobi-Mombasa corridor?

@omuonyotieno One SGR train can replace at least 100 trucks on the Mombasa-Malaba highway, with transit times reduced to hours instead of four days on average using trucks.

@omuonyotieno We were forcing the use of boats on L. Victoria forgetting that UG has no cargo handling capacity on their side. Even if UG will have done nothing at Malaba, we dump containers at the border. For us it means less trucks on our roads resulting in less maintenance costs.

@jackodeny @254Quantum *roads

@jackodeny @254Quantum Malaba makes sense because the stress of moving containers will be on Ugandan toads and not Kenyan ones.

@254Quantum Because we forced them so that we can make payments to SGR. It never makes sense to double handle cargo. It makes it more expensive to move goods. standardmedia.co.ke/business/busin…

@EricKigada Uganda is the biggest tenant at the naivasha dry port

NEW: The UK alongside France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Japan expresses readiness to contribute to appropriate efforts to ensure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz 👇 gov.uk/government/new…

@omuonyotieno Uganda & China the financiers have always wanted the SGR to get to the border. It is us who decided to divert it to Naivasha instead of taking it to Malaba right from the start. We cannot decommission the metre gauge railway because Uganda has a right to use it.

@EricKigada Taking it to Malaba is to connect it to UG. This time, if UG isn't playing ball like they always do, they lease to us the wayleave tulipishane as we operate.

Germany switching off its perfectly fine nuclear power plants, but keeping coal power plants instead to fight climate change in one picture. Enjoy your air quality.

@consultSC3 Trains never run a profit on passenger service alone. It's cargo that is profitable. How many containers of tea are exported every day? We have never been self-sufficient in fish supply in Kenya. The metre gauge railway passes through those areas & it's not used.

@EricKigada Tea & probably fish? But mostly it's a passenger service that's expected to earn revenue

Nobody's talking about Turkey They should be Iran supplies 15% of Turkey's gas demand via the South Pars pipeline. The latest strikes just put that supply in serious risk Turkey now needs to replace it with LNG. The same LNG that Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China are all desperately scrambling for. The same LNG that flows through a strait that's effectively closed. Every strike creates a new buyer in an already broken market. The LNG scramble just got a new contestant 🇹🇷 And Turkey is not a small economy. $1.5T GDP. NATO member. Sitting between Europe and the Middle East. An energy-stressed Turkey is a geopolitical wildcard nobody needs right now♟️

@TEKAI Which layout?

Si you check the plan layout before ranting?

QatarEnergy CEO says the Iranian attack overnight damaged ~17% of its LNG production capacity, and it would take 3-5 years to repair the damage. reuters.com/business/energ…

👀 EXCLUSIVE- QATARENERGY CEO TELLS REUTERS: WE MAY HAVE TO DECLARE FORCE MAJEURE ON LONG-TERM CONTRACTS FOR UP TO FIVE YEARS FOR LNG SUPPLIES TO ITALY, BELGIUM, KOREA AND CHINA - From Reuters. This is bad.